bethcoffelt at comcast.net wrote: > [root at lnx1 beth]# mysql -uspider -p wikipedia < wikipedia_cur_table.sql > Enter password: > ERROR 1153 at line 1018: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' At least you got such an informative message! The message you get in MySQL 3.2 is "MySQL server has gone away". Not very useful. :-)